[kismac] Re: Status of AtherosDriver/AtheroJack

As I have no working card which supports injection I'm interested
to work on this issue. Currently my KEXT skills are in a beginners
stage but ...

My favorite chipset is the Atheros since I use it in Linux-boxes
with a recent madwifi-ng driver.

As far as I have seen there are two Atheros drivers in the KisMACng
source? The one used by KisMAC is the AtheroJack, based on OpenHAL
and only usable for passive scanning without injection. The other
one is AtheroJack, a full network driver, based on the closed
source HAL as used in madwifi, but not working for the moment and
therefore not integrated in KisMAC. Right?

What is the current intent? Should AtheroJack get replaced by
AtherosDriver if at least passive mode is working? What are the
pros and cons of OpenHAL and the closed one? Is allready someone
working in this?

atherosdriver is the older one. the pro of the openhal is, that it
does not crash that often =/.... the binary hal is VERY buggy. no one
currently working.